If your dad was eligible for Social Security benefits but didn't get anything because of the Windfall Elimination Provision (and the same for your mom not receiving any spousal or survivor benefit ...

We have $30,000 left on our $400,000 mortgage, which we took out three years after we married. In the current market, it appraises for $800,000. After the birth of our first child 12 years ago, I ...

Because of my brother's delinquent tax and student-loan issues, I have been named sole heir and executor of my parents' estate. Baby brother expects me to administer the estate and give him his half ...

'I am pretty much uninsurable': My 20-year term life insurance is up, but I was diagnosed with throat cancer. Do I renew it? 'The annual premiums were a couple hundred dollars. The term is up and the ...

In contrast, mass deportations of undocumented immigrants would tank the U.S. economy. If President Donald Trump can limit himself to booting criminals and those under existing deportation orders, and ...

Consider the junk-bond spread, which is the additional yield above ultra-safe U.S. Treasury bonds that investors demand for incurring the risk of high-yield, or "junk" bonds. Nowadays they're not ...

At 57, the rule of thumb suggests that your husband should have roughly 43% of his investments in stocks, and the rest in bonds and other safer havens to shield him from a downturn in the market in ...

Many homeowners now choose to go skip insurance altogether, owing to the difficulty of obtaining coverage at all or even at a reasonable price. Insurance coverage has been diminishing in many respects ...

Along with this more than fivefold increase in billion-dollar disasters came rising insurance costs - exacerbated by weather disasters striking densely populated areas more frequently, the rising ...

Another seasonal trend is the four-year U.S. presidential cycle. In general, the market rises modestly in the first year after a presidential election, followed by trouble in the second year. In years ...

He is disabled and on Medicare because of multiple organ transplants - two livers and a kidney - but his wife is employed. Just last week he fell again at home, and this time the pain was so great he ...

In the background, one trend we’ve seen so far in 2025 is that growth stocks have struggled. As Bella Albrecht reports, value ...